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Re:A Gentle Introduction to Data Compression by sysk on Monday December 29, 2014 @11:06PM (#8813266)
Huffman encoding reminds me of UTF-8. What is the connection there? Is UTF-8 based on Huffman encoding?
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Re:A Gentle Introduction to Data Compression by ronreiter on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @01:06AM (#8813537)
It's not based on it, but the fact that English takes 1 character and the rest take 2 does resembles the same concept, since English is more common than other languages in general.
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